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Gliere: Symphony No. 3 (St. Cecilia Academy Symphony Orchestra of Rome, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Capi-tol-Telefunken, 2 sides LP). Although his Red Poppy ballet music is better known, this is probably the best work of 75-year-old Reinhold Gliere, dean of Russian composers (see above). Finished in 1911, it is based on the legend of the Paul Bunyan-like Russian folk hero, Ilya Murometz. Huge in concept, it sometimes sounds like such non-Russians as Sibelius or Bruckner. Performance and recording: good...
Prokofiev: Summer Day Suite (Santa Monica Symphony, Jacques Rachmilovich conducting; Disc, 3 sides). Originally pieces for children, written for piano, this suite loses some of its charm in orchestration, even though it was the composer himself who orchestrated it. Performance: fair...
...orchestra gave its first public performance and became the Santa Monica Symphony Orchestra. Last year when the orchestra played for the radio, one listener-Arturo Toscanini-was delighted. He rushed to the phone and shouted to an NBC big shot: "This orchestra is wonderful ... who is this Rachmilovich? . . . Let's have him here...
Last week, Jacques Rachmilovich was on the podium in front of Toscanini's own NBC Symphony, to guest-conduct the first of two concerts. His programming followed Rachmilovich's principle of playing music that other U.S. orchestras have not yet done to death. Instead of Beethoven and Brahms, NBC fans heard Darius Milhaud's Suite Provençale and Dmitri Kabalevsky's fiery Fete Populaire...
...Rachmilovich has used the same principle in building the reputation of his play-for-fun Santa Monica Symphony. When he finally got some of his money out of Europe (a friend sent it to him in Swiss watches, which sold easily in the war-short U.S.), he put it into making records ("something people would want-and would have to take ours or go without...